Comments on: Easiest excuse for taking freedom: security http://boingboing.net/2013/01/10/easiest-excuse-for-taking-free.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 01:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: donovan acree http://boingboing.net/2013/01/10/easiest-excuse-for-taking-free.html#comment-1627791 donovan acree Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204950#comment-1627791 "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."  Helen Keller “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
 Helen Keller

]]> By: Dewgeist http://boingboing.net/2013/01/10/easiest-excuse-for-taking-free.html#comment-1625029 Dewgeist Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204950#comment-1625029  If only we could predict the future --then we'd know exactly which liberties are worth losing...  If only we could predict the future –then we’d know exactly which liberties are worth losing…

]]> By: Marc45 http://boingboing.net/2013/01/10/easiest-excuse-for-taking-free.html#comment-1624864 Marc45 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204950#comment-1624864 It's all about fear...fear is the single most effect way to influence people's behavior...yes, more than sex or greed.  In fact, greed is really the fear of someone else getting the phat loot. It’s all about fear…fear is the single most effect way to influence people’s behavior…yes, more than sex or greed.  In fact, greed is really the fear of someone else getting the phat loot.

]]> By: Navin_Johnson http://boingboing.net/2013/01/10/easiest-excuse-for-taking-free.html#comment-1624625 Navin_Johnson Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204950#comment-1624625 <i>National security is as political as Social Security, and just as we argue about the latter, so do we argue about the former.</i> Except the latter is solvent until at least 2036, actually makes us secure, and is constantly under attack by those who would happily print and throw endless money at the first one... National security is as political as Social Security, and just as we argue about the latter, so do we argue about the former.

Except the latter is solvent until at least 2036, actually makes us secure, and is constantly under attack by those who would happily print and throw endless money at the first one…

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